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George Carmack letter to his sister Rose Watson and her husband regarding his search for gold in the Yukon Territory, August 18, 1895

Dear sister and Bro I have got back from the Yukon all safe. I have been back over two weeks and have been working at a saw mill ever since but will get through tomorrow and then I am going to get some deer to sell. Well you want to know where I have been and what I found well I found some good gold digins, that is, good Hydraulic digins, Jim will know what that means but we had no tools to work it with and I think it will tak[e] more than

Dear sister and Bro I have got back from the Yukon all safe. I have been back over two weeks and have been working at a saw mill ever since but will get through tomorrow and then I am going to get some deer to sell. Well you want to know where I have been and what I found well I found some good gold digins, that is, good Hydraulic digins, Jim will know what that means but we had no tools to work it with and I think it will tak[e] more than